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Do you or your CFO know how much your organization pays to cool your data center? What is IT's portion of the overall electric bill? Why does this matter? Consider this: A cooling unit providing 10 tons of cooling output can handle more than 35 kW of IT load. The electrical costs to run a compressor, keep fans going, and address humidification requirements for that 10 tons of cooling can exceed $15,000 per year. Money talks. Being able to divert that kind of money from utility bills to your IT budget makes data center air-flow management much more appealing. (Read Full Article)

As a CIO, you think about data management, security, cloud systems, and innovation, but have you thought about the energy it takes to power these innovations? Do IT executives have a role in energy efficiency? Are additional efforts warranted? IT's energy appetite According to a report from McKinsey & Company, a single data center uses as much energy as 25,000 homes. Plus, as of this year, U.S. data centers are expected to use more energy than can be produced by 10 new power plants! IT capacity growth has resulted in data centers consuming up to 100 times more energy per square foot than a typical office building. (Read Full Article)